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Read about Paul Erdös... not all math is the Riemann Hypothesis, there is yeoman's work connecting things and whatever...

It is the not knowing, the unknown unknowns and known unknowns which result in the max entropy distribution's appearance. When we know more, it is not Gaussian. That is known.

The first source I clicked into was a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. What you say sounds true about chronic illness and isolation. These researchers are looking at re…

This reminds me of bouncing on a trampoline. I'm a human not a computer

It sounds like it doesn't have any guarantees regarding topology. Or maybe it's so simple or does? Let's be positive my friends

> Many of us worked in fields where good research tends to be more nuanced and open to interpretation >> I've had a hard time getting people to understand this. Why, can't you just…

After I gave my 5,000th ride on Uber I had a beer. I thought. I pondered. I devised the iniquity experiment. (1) N drivers authorized on the Rideshare platform are engaged. (2) the…

The problem is price fixing, right? Milk, really?

Yes, except the driver will never have his child in a car seat in the front apologetically. And the passenger will pay in excess, but to the stock market and not the driver.

Driver pay gets adjusted this way too. Lyft and Uber. No tolls, traffic jams (at least) can cause this.

Timber is still the original and main purpoes of state forests in Oregon and Washington. The article is discussing federal forests. The timberlands in Oregon are owned by private, …

Isn't this like the exact opposite of the conclusions of the HapMap project?

Yea, I did that. The important thing is to understand that life is expensive. The main expenses are cars, houses and families. How many of each of those do you want? You need to un…

Who the f is this... making a downright suspicious amount of sense.

A lot of science is dismissed here with a "sample size too small" complaint. That's usually invalid... power depends on sample size and effect size together. But the problem with o…

Musk trollin' hard tonight, damn...

Can you write your thoughts more directly? I don't understand what you're trying to say. White male privilege is different from the disadvantages low-income people face. There are …

I would like to suggest that the general sentiment here is true in some other modern scientific disciplines. In other words, I don't think it's because psychology is transitioning …

I replied a few levels up mentioning kaolin spray ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin_spray ). For more information about 'particle films' (like kaolin spray) see this document. …

In WA some apple orchards are sprayed with kaolin (a fine white clay). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin_spray . Diatomaceous earth is also used on some crops. Both of these are …

The dietary effects on health are poorly understood. Nutrition studies are fraught with difficulties and have spawned a resurgence in methodology concerning "measurement error" in …

No. It sounds to me like the Stanford study failed to find a significant difference. That's different from demonstrating equivalence. There are some quotes in the article about how…

This seems pretty interesting if you read the description of the brain region. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claustrum I find this more interesting than 'rebar through the eye' styl…

This doesn't surprise me. And I am actually quite curious, because after almost two years working at Amazon.com I quit, thinking Amazon.com was Google was Every Corp > 1000 headcou…